The role and future of the monograph in arts and humanities research

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-82

  Williams, Peter ^a   Stevenson, Iain ^a   Nicholas, David ^a   Watkinson, Anthony ^a   Rowlands, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic staff; Electronic books; Monographics

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC STAFF; CAREER PROGRESSION; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DIGITAL AGE; DIGITAL VERSIONS; ELECTRONIC BOOKS; HUMANITIES RESEARCH; HUMANITIES RESEARCHERS; IN-DEPTH STUDY; MONOGRAPHICS; PRINT-ON-DEMAND; QUALITATIVE APPROACH; SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION; UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON; UNIVERSITY RESEARCH;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; HUMANITIES COMPUTING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

RESEARCH;

EID: 66749192708     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530910932294     Document Type: Article

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